APC politicians plan how to cover up after RIGGING Esan North East LG Election in Edo State.

Nigerian politicians hoodlums are so dubious that they can go extra length to win rig their elections. The video you are about to watch will shock some people while others who are used to the ways of Nigerian political hoodlums will say 'na their way'. 

Right before the LG election of last month, a chieftain of the PDP in Edo State, Chief Clifford Eineh, raised an alarm over the alleged plans by the APC to rig the council election in Esan North East LGA of Edo State.

In a statement, Eineh said, 

"We are using this opportunity to call on all security agencies to beef up their strategies to avert rigging and manipulations during the council election as scores of strange faces have invaded our communities ahead of the polls. We are more particularly concerned about the security of lives and property across Esan North East Local Government Area, especially the hinterlands like Uzea and several other villages in Uromi. We particularly call on the Inspector General of Police, IGP, the Edo State Commissioner of Police, the Department of State Services, DSS, and other security agencies to rise to the challenge of defending our nascent democracy as we have reliably gathered that there are plans by the APC - led government in Edo State to announce a concocted result on the council election in their favour from Government House, Benin City. Our people shall definitely resist any result that does not emanate from the election."

Most people thought he was bluffing, being a member of the PDP who are good at rigging elections.  #oops! Well, while speaking at the swearing-in of the council chairman at Government House in Benin City after the election late last month, Gov. Adams Oshiomhole had said:

"I am embarrassed that the police are involved in carrying electoral materials, arresting EDSIEC returning officers and coercing them into a police station and converting it into a collation centre supervised by policemen imported from Abuja and Lagos in order to subvert the will of the people of Esan North East".

In response to the governor's allegation, the Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, reacted to both the governor's allegations and the re-run election in Esan North East LGA in which the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Sam Oboh was declared winner. He said he was shocked by the level of "baseless allegations" made by Oshiomhole, who he described as a "self-appointed emperor". He challenged the governor to tell Nigerians whether it was the result that were "forcefully" signed in Uromi that he (Oshiomhole) used in declaring Oboh as chairman or the one signed in Government House.

Speaking through his media aide, Tony Ikpasaja, the minister said it was untrue that he deployed his personal security to rig the election which the state government was conducting for a third time.

He said: 

"I am at loss as to how a mere 'VIP' Protection Escort could have rigged an election covering 106 polling booths in 11 wards spread across the local government area in the presence of over 200 armed policemen. The good people of Edo State and indeed Nigerians are living witnesses to the deception in one-man-one-vote principle of the governor. The facts of the Esan North East council election are there for all to see."

He noted that despite the state government's manipulation of the election process, "the good people of Uromi stood their ground and expressed their preferences through the ballot."

According to the minister, the election turned out to be one of the fairest in the history of local government elections in the state with unprecedented turn-out but lamented that the Edo State Independent National Electoral Commission (EDSIEC) succeeded in disenfranchising thousands of voters through deliberate delay as accreditation and voting started at 2pm in most polling booths.

He added:

"To the amazement of all, while the votes were still being collated and counted as at 7 pm at the collation centre in Uromi, headquarters of Esan North East local government area, Governor Oshiomhole's EDSIEC went on air in Benin City, about 80 kilometres away to announce a forged and contrary result declaring the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Sam Oboh, as the winner."

Just as they say, 'the truth always comes out'. After rigging the Esan North East local government election, the APC members had a meeting to plan on how to cover their tracks and someone in the meeting had the guts to record it all. 

  VIDEO ERROR

In the video is the newly elected Chairman Esan north-east LGA - Hon. Sam Oboh, who happens to be the person sitting at the middle with a face cap on his head and asking for the electoral officers name and their phone numbers. I wonder what Adams Oshiomhole is going to do with this video and how he intends to defend it. Whatever was left of his credibility is seriously at stake.

If these were to happen in any other developed democratic country, these gentlemen will all go to jail for contravening the electoral law.